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TELLS OF TERRIBLE
COLO IN THE YUKON
Strange Manifestations Seen
When the Mercury Sinks to
60 Degrees Below Zero.
Special to The Journal.
Winnipeg, Man., Dec. 8.E. L. Par
sons, an old-time Yukon miner, has ar
rived here from the frozen north and
tells some remarkable stories of hap
penings at Dawson City, when the ther
mometer drops many degrees below the
zero maik. He says:
"Strange manifestations appear as
a result of the extreme coldj one is the
way a fire burns in the stove. It
roars and crackles like a great forge
and wood in the stove seems to dis
solve in the flames like a chunk of ice
the wood is gone and we wonder, where
the heat went. At 60 below, every
stovepipe throws out a great white
cloud of smoke and vapor.
"Exposed hands, ears and noses
freeze while one is going a few yards.
The breath roars like a mild jet of
steam, while a dipper of boiling water
thrown out into the air emits a pecu
liar whistling hiss as it drops thru the
frosty 'atmosphere.
"Prospectors in attempting to boil
a dish of rice or beans upon a camp
fire unprotected from the weather,
find that the side of the dish which is
in the fire will boil while the part of
the dish exposed to the weather will
freeze. Edged tools subjected to this
temperature become as hard and as
brittle as glass and will break as readi
ly under strain. With the temperature
60 below zero, I have seen a safety
valve blowing off steam, with icicles
hanging to the valve, having formed
from condensation, the icicles not melt
ing with the outrushing steam, but re
maining there many days."
Mr. Parsons tells some remarkable
stories of thawing out a frozen foot,
ear or hand by immersing the frozen
member in coal oil for some time
often for several hours. He says:
"This is absolutelv a safe remedy and
one thus escapes the surgeon's knife,
as no bad results follow.
A man from our camp was found
after he had been out all night with
the thermometer 50 degrees below zero &a
and both his hands were frozen to the J5t
wrists He waq talcpn into onm-n nnd
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REPRESENTATIVE F. B. CHAPMAN,
Buford, N. D.
Frank B. Chapman of Buford, N. D.,
who was re-elected as representative
from his district, is a candidate for
speaker of the next North Dakota
house, and his friends all over the
state are making a vigorous campaign
in his behalf! Mr. Chapman was bank
examiner in North Dakota for two
years and was prominent as a member
of the house in the advancement of the
irrigation proiect which is now under
MICHIGAN'S PINE CUT
TO FULL OFF
Increased Cost of Operating Is
Driving Some Jobbers and
Contractors from Field.
Special to The Journal.
Houghton, Mich., Dec. 8.Indica-
tions point to a reduction in the cut of
logs in the upper peninsula this winter.
The shortage of labor and increased
cost of carrying on operations have re
sulted in a number or jobbers and con
tractors leaving the woods.
Climatic conditions are good just at
present. There was an early fall of
snow, too early, in fact, to suit opera
tors who are cutting low ground,
but the weather holds cold. There has
been some easing up in the labor situa
tion. With the arrival of snow and
cold weather open pit mines in the
iron country have closed down and
surface operation at the underground
properties have been curtailed. This
has released many men.
The construction of the Keweenaw
Central railroad, in Keweenaw county,
has opened up a new field which here
tofore was somewhat inaccessible to
loggers. There is a large acreage of
virgin timberland in that section.
Much of this is owned by Lake
Superior copper mining companies,
which will eventually cut the logs and
uae them in their mining work.
.$,' Cedar operations in Menominee
^cdunty will be heavy this season. S.
Crawford & Sons, ot Cedar River, are
the largest operators. Perrizo & Sons,
of Daggett, are also, heavy producers.
The Oliver Mining company, which re
cently purchased the lands of the Cedar
River Land company, also will log.
SALT PLANT NEAB AT HOME.
Special to The Journal.
Deadwood, S. D-* Dec, 8.Much inter
est- is being taken in the operations of
a new salt plant at Cambria, Wyo., just
a short distance from the South Dakota
i" line. A test run was made and only a
few changes in the machinery will be
required to produce salt of a fine qual
ity in almost unlimited quantity and at
reasonable price.
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Ther
into camp and
aKe
Winn
his hands soaked coal oil for five Reagan and Jeff Davis' private secretary! Cleml
hours and all the frost came out and he I ants.
did not lose eyqn a finger tip. The
doctors were amazed they thought am
putation would have to be resorted
to
GOOD SPEAKERSHIP TIMBER
Editorfal Section.
Jfew School ai JYTorvitcello
GUARDED JEFF DAVIS
ON WHY TO II PRISON
Former Iowa Soldier Writes of In
teresting War Experience to
Brother in South Dakota.
Special to The Journal.
Elk Point, S. D., Dec. 8.In a recent
letter to his brother Michael of this
city, S. W. Hoffman tells of the part he
and twenty soldier boys under his com
mand took in lodging Jeff Davis, the
head of the lost cause, in the prison at
Fortress Monroe. He writes as follows:
Artesla, New Mexico, Nov. 27, 1906.
Brother Mike Your letter asking me about
my trip with Jeff Davis received. I then be
longed to Company I, Fifth Iowa cavalry. We
weie in a big raid with Genet ai Wilson's
corps. We were going into Macon, Ga., when
General Lee surrendered to General Grant. We
laid there ten days and then were ordered on
the cars with all of our equipments, except our
horses, which we never saw afterward and were
taken to Atlanta.
We laid there over night. The next morning
about eighty of us were detailed to guard a
regular train of passenger cars and a mail
coach. I was placed in
commandoust
twenty
men to gnaran the car and hi
were
.-family A of Company
pointethatheJeff alDaviof car,
to
me.s
commandin. of the whole He came Davislieutenanttrain.d
0
his wife an daughter,
ef
wer
ie the confederate postmaster general
The lieutenant instructed me not to let any
of them go out of the car, nor let anybody
come In. Wet raa to Augusta, Ga. Here the
prisoners, Davis and the rest, were put on a
steamboat and taken to Fortress Monroe
REPRESENTATIVE M. J. CHANEY,
Wakonda, S. D.
construction in this section of the state.
He is a skilled parliamentarian and a
conspicuous figure in any body in which
he may sit.
M. J. Chaney of Wakonda, S. D., is1
a seasoned legislator and a man of
much ability and force of character. He
early announced his candidacy for
speaker of the South Dakota house and
has a strong and enthusiastic follow
ing.
USORE,
DRUM Fll LIVES
Miraculous Escape of Michigan
Man Thrown Into Chute and
Loaded Into Ore Car.
Special to The Journal.
Calumet, Mich., Dec. 8.A mirac
ulous escape from a horrible death oc
curred at Amasa a few days ago, when
a drunken Finn went to the Hemlock
mine shaft at night and rang "stop"
to the engineer as he was lowering the
empty skip. The fellow then caught
hold of the rope and slid to the bottom
and lay down to sleep. The engineer
held the skip at the spot a long time
and, getting no signal, went to the
shaft to inquire the cause and was in
formed by the lander that no signal
had been given from that point. The
engineer then lowered the skip very
cautiously to the bottom.
The delay to the skip had caused a
congestion of cars on the plat below
and as soon as it rested on the bear
ers, a car of ore, holding two tons,
that had been waiting on the plat was
dumped into the skip, the sleeping man
in the bottom not having been de
tected by the skiptender.
The skip was "rung up," hauled to
the surface and its contents dumped
into the pocket. The ore fell out first
and after it the man who had been
thoroly .awakened and sobered by this
time. He followed the ore as it de
scended into the pocket and thru a
chute into another compartment of the.
pocket, and then out thru the main
chute into the railroad car.
The fellow had no sooner alighted*
in the car than he sprang to his feet,
jumped off the car and ran to his board
ing house. Except for a few slight
bruises, he was uninjured, and went to
_Work the next day. ,N'^.
NINTH DISTRICT'S FIRST DEBATE.
Special to The Journal.
Fergus Falls, Minn,, Dec. 8.ThVArst
high school debate or the state league
series in the ninth district Will be held
at Ada on Friday evening,' jkn ii,
between th Fergusr Falle -and Ada high
school teams. The winriine team will
then meet the East Grand Forks team
to decide the championshio of the dis
trict.
The, high school buildings shown
herewith are typical of those found in
all parts of Minnesota, whether in the
prairies of the south and west or in
the wooded districts of the north. The
building in the center of the group
was erected at Fosston in Polk county,
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
IS
First Volume for North Dakota in
PressWhat Is Contemplated
by the Society.
Special to The Journal.
Grand Forks, N. D., Dec. 8.The
State Historical societv of North
Dakota, established in 1895 and re
organized in 1903, has attained a mem
bership of 130. Incorporated under
the laws of the state and supported by
a small annual appropriation therefrom,
the society is by law the state reposi
tory for historical material, books,
charts and papers.
The society represents splendid work
on the part of the officers. Among
others, mention may be made of
Charles F. Amidon, federal judge, presi
dent of the society, and Professor O.
Q. Libby of the University of North
Dakota, the enthusiastic and inde
fatigable secretary. Dr. Libby has
given the state yeoman service in
tracing out and preserving antiquities
which as time passes will be of inestim
able value for the writing of the his
tory of North Dakota. Already ac
cumulations have been made for which
eastern universities would give a
princely sum.
Its Aims.
The purpose of the society is two
fold:
FirstTo maintain a state deposi
tory at Bismarck where a vault and
rooms have been reserved in the Capitol
for the use of the society.
SecondExploration: The gather
ing of materials illustrative of the life
of the Indians and the earliest times
to prepare and to publish accounts of
these remains with maps and pictures
to prepare a history of towns, counties
and communities, which latter work is
of especial interest and difficulty owing
to the exceedingly varied character of
the foreign populations. There are no
fewer than twenty-jthree languages
spoken and used by the residents of
North Dakota.
First Volume in Press.
The society has in preBs the first
volume containing sketches, addresses
and articles coveting the archeological
discoveries within the state. This
work is largely a matter of voluntary
contributions, made because of state
pride. Other achievements of the
society are:
FirstA collection of the news
papers of the state. It is the purpose
to receive, bind and preserve complete
files of all the newspapers of North
Dakota.
SecondThe collection of thousands
of photographs, maps and charts illus
trating the early life of the state, the
Indians and the enterprises of settle
ment and discovery.
The society is making every effort to
work in conjunction with those whose
profession brings them into contact
THE MINNEAPQLXgTJOURNAL::
*.<p>IFROte^jff GARNERING S O NEW S i X1REA NORTHWEST
*ad^
Ne^ Hi^b Soltool Buildino.r in
Throe Northern Minnesota TownJ*
JY&\^r ffigH. ^cHobl *at J^o^oton.,
at a cost of $17,500 Stephen's build
ing was completed the first of the pres
ent year at a cost of $23,000. Monti
cello s. building is not entirelv new, but
additions have been made to it and the
old part so remodeled that it is prac
tically a new structure. Jt has sixteen
s. w. HOFFMLAS^V
Whp Guarded Jeff Davis and Other Dignitaries
on Way -to Fortrew Monroe.
Wrth the materials for "history and
those in touch, with the actual history
at'the present, time,
Pnpils in high schools ought to feel
a pride in this work and gather and
collect material while'it tis fresh.
All Phases of Life.
North Dakota- has here communities
representing^ (the, aboriginal hunting
life" of the Indians, the pastoral life of
herder and ranchman, all phases of
agricultural conquest of the soil, and a
rapidly developing city and industrial
Me. All this the historical society
can ,re*cord and note the blending and
interlocking of the various stages,. part
of which will sobn have disappeared
forever.
Every loyal citizen of North Dakota
should help in this work which will be
the glory of the .commonwealth to have
done and an irreparable loss to neglect.
BIG CISTERN,FULL OP CIDER
Iowa Man's Place Will Be a Mecca If
No Lid Is Clapped On.
Special to The Journal.
Lake City, Iowa, Dec. 8.The home
of Alfred Fulhs, near this place, will
be the mecca for all his friends this
winter if no one puts the lid on.
JSot being able to market all his
apples from his*' 100-acre orchard at a
price that would net him proper re
turns, he dug a' cistern ten feet in
diameter and twelve feet deep, had it
cemonted and installed a pump and has
made the entire remnant of his apple
crop into cider
an.d
underground
stored it in bi
jufe A chemicalthe treatg
ment keeps -tne^eider from becoming
too hard, i.--'/' 4?
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BALATON IS PROUD OF ITS CORNET BAND
CORNET BAND.^-^S
atate. It furnished the music for the Ly on county fair at Marshall, and has had flattering: propositions from other cltl4
rooms, including one which will be used
for a public library. The whole pror
erty is valued at $25,000. All of the
buildings shown in the picture are
splendidly equipped for school work
and were built with painstaking care
on strictly modern lines.
HANGHAIED, STARVED
BOY'S WILD ADVENTURE
Nebraska Bank President's Son
Wanted a Touch of High
Life and Got It.
Special to The Journal,
Dakota City, Neb., Dec. 8.Shang-
'naied by the crew of an English tiamp
steamer, sailing from Portland around
the "Horn" last March escaping with
his companions by jumping into the
ocean .near, Valdiva, South America,
"walking across the southern part of
the continent, where he secured pass
age on a jSpanish ship, bound for Aus
tralia, Edgar Ayers, son of M. O. Ayers,
president of a Dakota City bank, has
arrived at Somerset, Australia, after a
voyage Aof 104 days, during which he
was. shamefully treated and put on
fevtfKfcfcyeJftStt rations. O*
f MiaM&ers has notified tialBrtheTi
^ho^elSr^ly ill, of hjfe con||pB, and
I of the treatment he ,reeeiveofon board
the Spanish ship," w$rse by odds than
the fierce" '"Sea Wolf" of ihe famous
Jack London story. But he does not
believe he will need assitaiice, declar
ing that he intends cbmn home by
way Of London, and that he can work
around all right.
Previous to being dragged on board
the English tramp ship at Portland,
Ayers, who is but 22 years of age,
served two vears in Uncle Sam's navy
in the far east, and his release was se
cured by his father he then acted a8
brakeman on the Kansa3 City Limited,
the fastest train on the Minneapolis &
Omaha railroad was a timekeeper in
thersOmaha plant of Armour & Co.
waiter in a restaurant at Billings,
Mont. a cow puncher on his father's
Wyoming ranch, and when shanghaied
a musician in a circus band.
The Spanish ship, which was a mere
tub of a sailboat, left Eawson, in South
America, on Au. 13. Whether this ac
counted for the ill luck of the craft or
not, is a matter of conjecture, but the
boat was at sea 103 davs, and out of
sight of land 98 days. The crew was in
actual want before the boat had been
out 60 days. When the 75th day ar
rived, all the men who had been taken
on in South America were kept in the
hole to keep them from jumping over
board in their desperation, while they
were fortunate to receive fourth-class
rations until a few days before they ar
rived on the north coaBt of Australia.
Young Ayers' seamanship assisted
him to a great extent. Even the Span
iards know how to appreciate the men
whom Uncle Sam trains in'his navy,
not only because they have reason to do
so from an experience still fresh in
mind, but from the fact that young
Ayers assisted them in keeping the old
tub in the course, when it seemed it
would go 1o the bottom. This gave him
something better than the common sail
or received, and he escaped with his
life, seeing two of his comrades sewed
in sailcloth and tossed overboard.
Their death, young Ayers declares, was
due to starvation and abuse.
AtmjsrsB^&S&*Hsm
a, Minnesota,^h&a one of the best mus leal Organisations In that part of the-J
Defective Page
Sunday, December, g, 1900.
few Jiigh School zt *3t&ph&n.
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TURNER COUNTY HAS
BEST-KEPT FARMS
Hill Prize Money of $450 Goes to
Farmers Residing Near
Hurley, S. D.
Special to The Journal.
Hurley, S. D., Dec. 8.Turner county
has the two best-kept farms in South
Dakota.
This is the verdict of the prize con
test instituted last spring by J. J. Hill
of the Great Northern road. The first
prize of $300 went to S. E. McCullough,
who has a farm east of here, and the
second of $150 went to John Lakings,
residing south of Hurley. The third
prize was awarded A. L. Johnson, liv
ing near Lennox. Farmers from all
over South Dakota entered the con
test.
McCullough came here from Greene
county, Iowa, and purchased a farm
that was run down, and brought it to a
high stte of efficiency. Every animal
on the place is a thorobred, even to the
ducks and chickens, while fences and
buildings are in perfect condition.
Professor Thomas Shaw of Minne
apolis was chairman of the judges and
made a personal visit to the farms.
During the nineteenth century fifty
two new islands rose from the sea by
peared.
action and* sixteen disap-
REV. MR. ALMEN.
Special to The Journal.
St. Peter, Minn., Dec. 5.Thirty
years of married life were completed
yesterday by Eev. and Mrs. L. G.
Almen, who celebrated the anniversary
bv entertaining a company
friends.
^MT*
a wismall
iel known
is
A
lme
Swedf
ish Lutheran minister. While pastor of
the Swedish Lutheran church at Bala
ton, he was elected president of the
Gustavus Adolphus college board and
CRAWFORD VISITS ALL
STATE INSTITUTIONS
S. D. Governor-elect Makes the
Rounds to See and Know
for Himself.
Special to The Journal.
Mitchell, S. D., Dec. 7.Governor
elect Crawford is personally investigat
ing all state institutions. He has just
been to Plankinton to examine the
reform school and was here on his way
to inspect the insane hospital at Yank
ton, and was going from there to the
state university at Vermillion. During
the campaign he visited all the insti
tutions in the Black Hills.
Mr. Crawford says it is his object,
and he feels it to be his duty, to know
thoroly the needs and the conditions
surrounding each institution, and he
believes that he cannot ascertain them
better than by a personal investiga
tion.
"The reports that are made by the
heads of the institutions,'' said' Mr.
Crawford, "do not convey the same
information that I can get by going
over the buildings. When the appro-
?nationse
are up at the coming session
will in a position to know some
thing of the requirements of each case
presented, and what I have seen will
act as a pretty safe guide."
This is the first time in the history
of the state that a governor-elect has
made such a trip.
Frame County Option Law.
Officers of the State1
Anti-Saloon
league and representatives of the W.
C. T. U. and of the prohibition party
were in conference in this- city concern
ing the formation of a county option
bill as an amendment to the present
state liquor law.
1 Th bill is designed to give every
voter in the county an opportunity to
vote on the question whether licenses
shall be issued in any town in the
county. I is well knowni that the
sentiment in the country precincts is
against license, and wrijbithe farming
of the state. The liquor men willfight
the bill when it is presented and say
they can defeat this sweeping reform.
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JARS. SIDNEY JONES,
STATE PIONEER, DEAD
Her Family the First to Take a
Prairie HomesteadHusband
Killed by Indians.
Speclal to The Journal.
Mankato, Minn., Dec. 8.The death
of Mrs. Sidney Jones of Cambria re
moves a woman about whose life much
historic interest from a local point of
view hangs. She was born in Wales
eighty-four years ago, and after coming
to America settled in Cambria/ Wis.
From there she moved with her husband
and children to Blue Earth county in
the spring of 1861.
They were the first family to take a
purely prairie homestead, and for that
reason Mr. Jones went by the name of
"Sidney Jones, prairie." In Septem
ber, 1862, while Jones was on his way3
to assist a neighbor to do his stacking,
he was murdered by the Sioux Indians,
who also killed four or five other set
tlers on the same raid. The bodies of
Jones and three others were buried in"
one grave.
Mrs. Jones took her six small children
and went to South Bend, where settlers
were more numerous. She had little or
no means, and her struggle to rear her
children was a hard one. When" she
had accomplished it, she wag foreed to
see them die from tuberculosis, one
after the other, until but one was left,
Edward Jones, who is now a prominent
farmer of Cambria.
Mrs. Jones returned to live on the
homestead when the Indian war was
over. Having no timber to build
fences, Mr. Jones had followed the Eng
lish custom of building a stone fence,
but having little or no stone on his
place, he used much sod, and by infinite
labor constructed a sod fence around
the farm. The remains of this fence
can still be seen.
The funeral of Mrs. Jones was held
yesterday, the remains being placed
beside those of her husband in Jerusa
lem cemetery.
NEW BLOOD IN LEAD FIELD
Upper Michigan Men Prepare to De
velop a Wisconsin Mine.
Special to -The Journal.
Crystal Falls, Mich., Dec. 8.For the
purpose of taking over and operating
the Graham & Stephens lead and zinc
mine, near Platteville, Wis., the Lake
Superior & Platteville company has
been organized at Crystal Falls, and
capitalized at $100,000. The property
consists of 120 acres, and has been but
meagerly developed. It will now be
opened on an extensive scale.
MARRIED THIRTY YEARS
MRS. ALMEN.
was given complete charge of raising
subscriptions for the institution. It is*
his ambition to raise $100,000 -with
which to erect and endow new build
ings, and he has been so successful that
the donations already secured by him
exceed $50,000.
Mr. and Mrs. Almen have nine chil-
drenG. P. Almen, Mountain Iron,'
Minn. Bertha Almen, New TJlm Mrs.
G. H. Towley, Hannah Ansgar, Carl,
Lillie, Edith and Alfonse Almen, St."1
Peter.
WAR ON NEGRO SOLO
Assemblyman-Elect Palmer Must,
Leave Fashionable Section
for Darktown.
Special to The Journal.
Milwaukee, Dec. 8.Lucien H. Palm
er, colored, who was elected assembly
man from the sixth district, the richest^
in Wisconsin, defeating a prominent
white democrat, finds his path to the
state house not strewn with roses.
Mutterings have been heard among*'
resentful residents of his district to the*
effect that they will attempt to nullifvi
his election with affidavits stating that*
he was a valet for a man in another*
ward than that which was given as hisU
home, and therefore was not a legal
resident of the district which elected^
him.
But far more positive is the demand*
made upon Palmer by residents of thff
neighborhood in which he lives, that*
he leave there and move back to the
place called Darktown, whence he came*
There was not a colored man in the
block when Palmer decided to go tbferr.*
After he arrived a council ^f neighbors'
was called and a committee of one, Mrs."
A. B. Scott, called to ask iim to get
out. This was before Mrs. Scott and
other women knew the objectionable*
family was that of an assemblyman-"'
elect. The fact being discovered, no
change occurred in sentiment.
Petitions have been circulated and*
extensively signed, demanding that
Palmer's new landlord elect him. The*
landlord said he guesses Mr. Palmer i
as good or better a tenant as some oth^
ers he could name.
ALMOST KILLED I N EUNAWAY.
Special to The Journal.' -mi^J"*
St. Peter,' Minn.jlv Dec. 8.James*
Picker, a farmer of Nicollet township i
narrowly escaped bein^ killed in a run-"
away accident in this city. His^ team*
Bprinted several blocks, and whenHhey
attempted to turn ja corner Pickdr was*
thrown out^ his head striking the curb**
He was picked' up-uhconseioW No*
bones wete "broken, althd "lie -receive?!*
S3reral slight sealp wounds and a deep"
gaBh across his cheek
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